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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 7 August 2009 9.00am EDT

During the last week the observing schedule was replanned to use attitudes that would keep the MUPS tank temperature near its minimum value as a precaution against exacerbating a potential leak.

A real-time procedure was completed on Aug 3 to update the on-board ephemeris. A second real-time procedure was executed on Aug 5 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below

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Radiation Belts                     Aug  9
NGC6440X-2             ACIS-S       Aug 10
PSRJ1846-0258          ACIS-S
SN1990U                ACIS-S
W44North               ACIS-I       Aug 11
G29.37+0.10            ACIS-I
Radiation Belts                     Aug 12
SPT-CL2332-5051        ACIS-I
Arp295                 ACIS-S       Aug 13
C4-DR5-2073            ACIS-S
NGC6861                ACIS-I
Radiation Belts                     Aug 15
F23234+0946            ACIS-S
SDSSJ0000+1356         ACIS-S
NGC7385                ACIS-I
4C23.56                ACIS-S       Aug 16

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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